Archive for February 20th, 2009
February 20th, 2009 | Comments Off
A head honcho at bread producer Chally-Bread is running for Tatarstan’s parliament, and half-price bread suddenly appears on store shelves. It’s just a coincidence, insists candidate Rafael Yunysov. Stores in the city of Chally, in the Republic of Tatarstan, are offering discount “anti-crisis bread” in a move that looks suspiciously like an effort to boost [...]
Tags: Business and finance, Central Asia, Chutzpah, Russia, Tatarstan
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A survey of Palestinian Muslims indicates that support for suicide attacks is correlated, not with devotion to Islam as such (as measured by frequency of prayer), but with frequency of mosque attendance. The researchers surveyed Palestinian Muslims about their attitudes towards religion, including how often they prayed and went to mosque. The researchers found that [...]
Tags: Barbarism, Islamic teaching, Social psychology
Posted in Islam, Non-Christian Religions, Social sciences | Comments Off
February 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Dow-Jones Industrial Average, as at 12:53 PM EST 20 Feb. Cartoon: Michael Ramirez Dow-Jones chart: Google finance
Tags: Business and finance, Cartoons, Financial crisis, Folly, Michael Ramirez, US politics
Posted in In a Jocular Vein, United States | 1 Comment »
February 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
High fuel costs and poor fishing have led to hardships in remote Alaskan villages near the mouth of the Yukon River. When The Rev Franklin Graham and other workers with his Christian relief organisation Samaritan’s Purse visited Wasilla yesterday to collect food donations for the stricken area, Governor Sarah Palin said she would personally help [...]
Tags: Alaska, Franklin Graham, Sarah Palin, Yukon River
Posted in Christianity, United States | 1 Comment »
February 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Philip J Spencer, an academic who specialises in Holocaust and genocide studies, calls on leftists to stop ignoring and minimising contemporary anti-Semitism. There are a number of ways in which much of the left now refuses to engage seriously with anti-Semitism but rather helps to legitimate it. The first takes the form of explaining anti-Semitism [...]
Tags: Anti-Semitism
Posted in International | 2 Comments »
February 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments
A few days ago, it was reported that a prayer room used by Christian nursing students was ordered closed at The Children’s Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan. Now Christian nursing students are being targeted at another hospital in Lahore. Two female Christian students of Fatima Memorial Hospital’s nursing school in the Pakistani city of Lahore, have been [...]
Tags: Health and medical, Pakistan, Persecution
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Life Issues, Religious Liberty/Persecution | 2 Comments »
February 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
These women are in big trouble. Saudi religious police say they have uncovered the country’s first female-run alcohol factory, in the eastern city of Dammam. Alcohol production and consumption is strictly forbidden in Saudi Arabia, which adheres to the fundamentalist Wahabi interpretation of Islam. The alleged illegal alcohol factory was located inside an empty house, [...]
Tags: Islamic teaching, Saudi Arabia
Posted in Asia-Pacific | 1 Comment »
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Four women from Moldova were promised jobs in London but, when they arrived, they were forced to work as prostitutes for 20 hours a day. They have now won a landmark lawsuit against the couple who deceived and coerced them into prostitution. Identified only as AT, NT, ML and AK, the young women, all from [...]
Tags: Barbarism, Culture of life, Human trafficking, Moldova
Posted in Europe, Life Issues, United Kingdom | Comments Off